It’s official! LISA Pathfinder is safely en route to a virtual point in space called the Sun-Earth Libration Point 1 (SEL1), 1.5 million km from Earth. A main engine burn during the weekend provided the thrust needed...

On the evening of 8 December, LISA Pathfinder was spotted in orbit by a team from DEIMOS Space, working at a new observatory located in Spain: We received a note from Noelia Sánchez-Ortiz, one of the observers,...

Three done, three to go! These updates were sent in by LISA Pathfinder Spacecraft Operations Manager Ian Harrison Monday evening and this morning, reporting on the results of the Nos. 2 and 3 apogee-raising engine burns (referred...

This update sent in this morning by LISA Pathfinder Spacecraft Operations Manager Ian Harrison at ESOC: The evaluation of this morning’s main engine burn conducted by LPF – the first of the so-called apogee-raising manoeuvres (ARMs) –...

To travel to SEL1, LISA Pathfinder must raise its apogee to be near the 1.5-million-km point and to do so the spacecraft will perform a sequence of 'apogee raising manoeuvres' providing a velocity increment of more than...